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"Well, have you actually tried what you're proposing?" I sheepishly admitted I had not. The setting was the 1993 International Congress on Peer Review in Biomedical Publication, and I had just spoken on book reviews as a form of peer review. I had suggested publishing "structured book reviews" akin to the structured abstracts that accompany journal articles, speculating that such reviews would be easier to write than conventional reviews, would tend to be more complete, and would make the presented information more accessible to readers.

Struggling to compose this review, I recalled my remarks. "What better time to try writing . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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